--- title: And early in the morning, before they awoke, she went up to them, an… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: And early in the morning, before they awoke, she went up to them, and saw how lovingly they lay sleeping, with their chubby red cheeks, and she mumbled to herself, "That will be a good bite." Who acts: children, witch, That. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, witch, That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg11027:8:73 # text = And early in the morning, before they awoke, she went up to them, and saw how lovingly they lay sleeping, with their chubby red cheeks, and she mumbled to herself, "That will be a good bite." 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 before before SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 awoke awake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 13 up up ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 20 lovingly lovingly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 23 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 27 chubby chubby ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 mumbled mumble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 37 " " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 " " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **awake** | past | children *= child* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go up** | past | witch | | children *= child* | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **see** | past | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **lay** | present | children *= child* | | | | | lovingly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sleep** | gerund | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | with children's chubby red cheeks | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **mumble** *speech: other* | past | witch | | witch | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | | 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | future | That | a good bite | | | | | tree rules | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/74/) - ↑ back to [Hansel and Grethel](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/8/)